DANI DYER on Confidence Struggles, Dad's Addictions & Why I Never Visited My Son's Father In Prison
Great Company with Jamie Laing
Jampot
4.6 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
We all fell for Dani Dyer when she appeared on Love Island back in 2018. She’s a proper family girl - lives just a 6 minute drive from her parents - she once tried living 20 minutes away but that was too far, and I think this is what people love about Dani: she’s warm, charming and down to earth. Her dad also happens to be the tough guy actor, Danny Dyer which makes her bubbly sweetness even more likeable. I was excited to have her into the studio for a proper chat.
What stood out to me the most about our chat was her battles with self confidence, which I believe something to be so universal. We all can suffer from lack of confidence, and all have our own worries, insecurities and anxieties and it is by opening up that we realise that we are not so alone.
We cover:
• Her struggles with confidence from a young age
• How an accident led her to Love Island - plus her dad’s reaction to her being on the show
• Failed relationships and what she’s learnt from them
• Her dad’s addiction struggles and the impact on her growing up
• How she dealt with the father of her first child going to prison
• Meeting her husband, Jarrod Bowen (and the song the fans like to sing)
Dani came across to me as such a bright spirit and a reminder to me that everyone has their own battles to fight and by opening up we are not so alone. Dani Dyer is Great Company.
You can check out Dani's clothing collection here: The Dani Dyer Clothing Collection | Peacocks
Listen to Live and Let Dyers podcast here
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Editor: Dan King
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. My name is Jamie Lang and this is Great Company. Hi guys, welcome back to |
| 0:10.8 | Great Company. Very, very excited for this episode with Danny Die. It is just amazing for so many reasons. |
| 0:17.1 | Now, before we start the show, I just want to ask one favor, which is if you haven't subscribed to our channel yet, please do. It does us wonders, it's completely for free, and I will |
| 0:26.3 | love you forever. That's the only thing I'll ever ask. Okay, here we go. Enjoy this episode, |
| 0:30.9 | A Great Company. I cannot wait with Danny Dyer. |
| 0:35.7 | Hi, I'm Danny Dyerer, and I'm in great company. |
| 0:42.3 | You're a wag though now. |
| 0:44.1 | I hate that word, Jeremy. |
| 0:44.9 | Okay, well... |
| 0:45.7 | I don't understand why because it's just wives and girlfriends. |
| 0:47.9 | I just think it's the way it said, like she's a wag. |
| 0:50.9 | Okay, well, you... |
| 0:52.3 | Jared plays football for West Ham. |
| 0:53.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.3 | What is some of the chance that the fans... Oh, what... Who ever made that chant, they need to DM me and let me know who it is, because I want to know. What is the chant? What Burmings are by? And he's shagging, Tyre. Do you know my little boy says kissing, |
| 1:12.4 | he sings it in the back of my car sometimes, Ante. Bowens on fire and he's kissing Danny Dyer. I'm like, that's your mother you're speaking about. I can't even ground him. He's too smart. Annie shagging, Danny Dallie Dallie. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no. My dad sings it, he thinks it's brilliant. |
| 1:27.8 | He thinks he's brilliant. |
| 1:29.8 | He says he starts to chant off sometimes. I'm like, yeah, oh, mate. But so you live close to your dad? My mum and my dad, yeah. How close do you live to them? Seven minutes away. Seven minutes? Yeah. Driving or walking? Driving, yeah. Walking is a bit dangerous where we are. Do you think you ever move away too far away from your parents? I don't know. If we had to, I would. But I do like having them around. Because obviously, Gerra's family are so far away. Like so far away from us. So they're my only little comfort blanket. So I like having |
| 2:02.5 | them near me. I've always been very near. I was 20 minutes before and that felt far. |
| 2:07.3 | Really? Yeah, it's ridiculous. How close are you to your family? So close. I think because |
| 2:13.8 | they had me so young. Like they were 18 when they had me, my mum and dad. That is crazy. Yeah, they were babies, like babies. So I think that's why they've sort of brought me up. I mean, they were kind of like still teenagers in a sense, you know what I mean? Like, so they're like my friends. Really? Yeah, it's great. But explain that to me. So what is it mean? Because I find this with, when I married Sophie, right? Yeah. I, what I sort of didn't, when you marry someone, you forget that you're marrying the whole family as well. You think you're just marrying that same person. And I got very lucky. I married, like, into her family, which are amazing. But she's very, like, my parents and my parents. I definitely see them as parents. Yeah. And I probably wouldn't, I can now, but I wouldn't, like, smoke around my parents. I wouldn't swear around my parents. And I would, yeah, I had this sort of relationship that where Sophie, they're like mates, but also parents, but also but also like mates. And I found that like, |
| 3:11.1 | it was like this really close, I'm close with my family. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's a different sort of closest when you feel like your mates were there. Yeah, yeah. So you have that. Yeah, very, don't get, see, my mum was always a lot stricter than my dad. So like, and it used to annoy me when I was a teenager because I was always first home. They used to always, always |
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